Apr

14

Raleigh Chronicle Shutting Down

Written by S. Beaumont and filed under Local Sites 

The Raleigh Chronicle has stated it will be shutting down on Tuesday, April 14th. A short paragraph on the site says that more details are to come, and that the paper has been purchased.

After serving over a million readers in the Raleigh community, the locally owned Raleigh Chronicle will close on Tuesday, as another newspaper purchases the publication. A more detailed story will appear on Tuesday, the final day of publication for the Raleigh Chronicle.

I’ll be interested to see who bought this and how it pans out. I could never really wrap my head around the Chronicle. In concept, I loved the idea of a local independently owned paper, but in practice, I could never really understand the paper’s position in the publishing/news community. They seemed to straddle the line between a local interest site with original stories and the mainstream news media who serve as a single source for local news.

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4 Responses to “Raleigh Chronicle Shutting Down”

  1. S. Beaumont on April 14th, 2008 12:10 pm

    The more I think about this, the more I bet that they’re just going to merge with the Downtowner - which I think are already owned by the same people anyway.

  2. John on April 14th, 2008 5:57 pm

    Welcome back! Glad to see the ‘Press publishing again.

    A few months back I had a dialogue with Crash Gregg of the downtowner, and I got the distinct impression he was stretched to the limit on just getting the downtowner out the door. I’d be surprised if this turned out to be the case. It could be that this is the reasoning for the merger if it did happen, though.

    Thanks for the kudos on the last article! Glad to see you got mentioned as well.

  3. S. Beaumont on April 15th, 2008 6:07 am

    Thanks for the info, John. Looking at their site, it looks like they’ve changed the wording on their “sale” message. Interested to see who bought this and what they’re going to do with it.

  4. S. Beaumont on April 15th, 2008 11:17 am

    Bingo: “Downtowner buys Chronicle” http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1037484.html

    I was hoping that it was something a little juicer than a family transaction.

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